Sole-tempering box



C. M. MELLAGE.

SOLE TEMPERING BOX.

APPLICATION FILED 050.6, 1920.

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APPLICATION FILED DEC.-6, I920.

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APPLICATION FILED DEC-6,1920.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAnLns M. MELLAGE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis and Stateof Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Sole- Tempering Box, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a combined shoe rack and sole tempering box for use in shoe factories, and has for its primary object to provide a shoe rack with means for supporting a sole tempering box and an insole box so that the required number of insoles and tempered shoe soles may be at hand when ever desired for use, thereby obviating the necessity of employees going to a sole tempering room far the tempered shoe soles when they are needed for the shoe contained on the rack.

A furtherobject of the inventionis'the provision of a shoe sole tempering box to be carried by the shoe rack, said box being so constructed that retempering of the shoe soles placed therein will not be required, or necessary prior to fixing the soles to the shoes carried by the rac j lit is now customary to temper soles and store them away for use, which. usually requires retempering before their use, and, it is my object .to place the tempered soles in the specially constructed shoe sole tempering box, which, being provided with moisture retains the temper of the soles until such time as they are to be used.

Further, by providing each shoe rack with a sole tempering box and an insole box, the

former being slidably mounted upon the rack, it greatly facilitates matters, for the reason that when an employee is to sole the shoe carried by the rack, he will find the required number of insoles and tempered soles at hand, thus obviating the necessity of going to another part of the factory to secure the desired number of tempered shoe di'i soles. With the above and other ObJGCiZS in view,

' the invention consists in the novel features tit) of construction, arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and finally pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

Referring to the accompanying drawmgs forming a part of this specification wherein like characters of reference denote similar parts throughout the several views:

specification of Letters Patent. Patented May Application filed December 6, 1920. Serial No. 428,514.

porting shelves slats 1 Fig. 1, is an end elevation of a shoe rack provided with a sole tempering box.

Fig. 2, is a sectional View taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 3, clearly'showing the interior of the sole tempering box.

drawing, 1 indicates a suitable provided-with the shoe sup- 2. The shoe rack is supported by means of suitable casters 3. The reference character 4 designates a pair of angle iron members which are arranged in opposed relation upon the end sill members 5 of the rack 1. These angle iron members 4 are for the purpose of slidably supportin and guiding a shoe sole temperingbox and an insole box B to be hereinafter described.

The sole tempering box A consists of a suitable box like body 6 having a suitable cover 7 hinged on oneside, as at 8. The box 6 is for the purpose of receiving tempered shoe soles.

The bottom of the box 6 is provided with afelt, or equivalent pad 9. The side Walls of the box 6 are each provided with a lurality of felt, or equivalent pads 10, eld

in position by means of the pad supporting and 6. A suitable tempered shoe sole supporting rack is positioned within the box 6, consisting of a plurality of transverse crosspieces 14 terminating at each end in downwardly extending supporting legs 15, which legs are adapted to rest upon the bottom 16,01? the box 6 to hold the cross-pieces 14 above the bottom pad 9. The cross-pieces 14 are provided with a plurality of rods, or

suitably fixed to the cross-pieces 14:, and upon which rods 17 the tempered shoe soles are placed in piles, as is manifest.

The box is provided with a suflieient quantity of moisture by dipping the several felt pads in Water so that the box will act as a humidor to retain the tempered soles in their tempered state until they are fixed to the shoe carried by the rack.

The cover 7 of the box 6 is provided with a plurality of air vents 18, which are each opened and closed by means of a suitable shutter plate 19 pivoted as at 20. Each shutter plate 19 is provided with an opening 21 which registers with its respective air vent 18 when the air vent is open. A suitable channel member 22 is fixed to the under face of the cover 7 and spans the air vents 18, as shown in Figs. 2 and 6. Each of the channel members 22 is provided with a plurality of openings 23, as shown in Fig. 2.

It will be understood that the shoe sole tempering box 6 is supported by means of the angle-iron supports 4 and is slidably mounted thereon, so that the box may be withdrawn when it is desired to remove any of the tempered solestherefrom. The box is withdrawn from one end or the shoe rack,

as disclosed by dotted lines in Fig. 3. One end of the shoe tempering box 6 is provided with a suitable card holder 24:, as shown in Fig. 1a

Theinsole box B consists of a suitable box like member provided with a removable cover The insole box B is mounted upon the angle iron rails, or members i at one end of the rack, and, it is fixed to the angle iron members by means of suitable fastening means 26.

From the foregoing description, it is evident that when the shoe rack is provided with a number of shoes, that the insole box B is provided with an equal number of insoles and that the sole tempering box A is likewise provided with a like number of tempered shoe soles, so that no matter how long the rack stands before the soles are applied to the shoes thereom that the shoe soles will be kept in their tempered state until applied to the shoes owing to the moisture supplied the interior of the tempering box by the water saturated pads carried therein.

The many advantages of an apparatus of the class herein described, will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates.

I do not desire to be understood as limit-- ing myself to the exact details of construction and arrangement as herein described and illustrated, as it is manifest that variations and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention and the terms of the following claims, hence I wish it to be understood that I reserve the right to make any such changes,

or modifications as may fairly fall within the scope of the appended claims when fairly construed.

What I claim is:

1. A shoe sole tempering box comprising a box like member having a hinged top, means positioned within said box for supplying moisture thereto for retaining the temper of shoe soles stored therein and means for ventilating said shoe sole tempering box.

2. A shoe sole tempering box comprising a box like body having a hinged cover, a plurality of moisture supplying pads rcmovably carried within said box, a removable sole supporting rack arranged within said box and means for ventilating said shoc sole tempering box.

3. A. shoe sole tempering box for use with shoe supporting racks comprising a box like body, a cover for said body, a ren'iorable moisture supplying pad covering the bottom of said box like body, a plurality of removable moisture supplying pads for the side walls of said box like body, means for holding the latter mentioned pads in upright position, a removable rack supported above said bottom moisture supplying pad upon which tempered shoe soles are deposited and means for ventilating the shoe sole tempering box through the cover thereof.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name to the specification.

CHARLES M. MELLJLGE. 

